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wajve – a Berlin-based financial app for Gen Z – has raised a EUR5 million seed round, led by EQT Ventures with participation from 468 Capital.
The funding will be used to accelerate the roll-out of the platform, which has just launched, for the first customers in Germany before expanding into other European markets.
A frictionless experience, wajve enables excellent financial decisions in seconds for the younger generation, combining banking, financial education, and advice in one app – with a special focus on Gen Z. Now the largest generation, constituting 32 per cent of the global population, these digital natives
Compusoft Group, a leading global visual CPQ provider and portfolio company of TA Associates, has acquired InnovaItalia, the Pesaro, Italy-based distributor of Compusoft’s 3CAD software in Russia and neighbouring countries.
The acquisition of InnovaItalia is a natural extension of Compusoft’s furniture business unit and will expand their presence into new geographies, as well as broaden their strong customer base. Direct access to this market will open up further opportunities in a growing vCPQ market in Russia and provide Compusoft with a solid base for expansion.
David Tombre, CEO, Compusoft says: “InnovaItalia have forged an excellent reputation and business in Russia
VenueScanner, a UK-based online venue booking platform, has secured a USD1.5 million in a funding round led by Rianta Capital and ACF Investors.
Launched to enable individuals, businesses and event organisers to find better and more affordable venues, it is helping undiscovered and independent venues reimagine how they use their space and fill their downtime.
Rebecca Kelly, founder and CEO of VenueScanner, says: “While the last year has taught us that we don’t need to be sitting next to each other to get our work done, it has also taught us how important it is to be together to
British Patient Capital has made a USD75 million cornerstone commitment to Balderton Capital Growth I, as Balderton Capital announces its final close at USD680 million.
Balderton is one of the most established technology investors in the UK, with over two decades of experience of backing some of the country’s most ambitious founders from a very early stage. Darktrace and The Hut Group, which have both recently listed in London, are two notable Balderton successes. This new venture growth fund, one of the largest in the UK and Europe, is able to support founders as they scale their businesses with the
Valmet has entered into agreements to acquire EWK Umwelttechnik, a German company manufacturing and supplying air emission control systems and after-installation services, and ECP Group, a Finnish manufacturer and maintainer of air emission control systems.
These acquisitions complement Valmet’s customer offering in environmental technologies and related services.
The values of the acquisitions, which are expected to close in July 2021, have not been disclosed. After the acquisitions are completed, Valmet’s Environmental Systems offering covers technologies and services for wet and dry flue gas cleaning, flue gas desulfurisation, NOx reduction and burner systems for energy and process industries, and marine
An affiliate of One Rock Capital Partners is to acquire the tyre additives business of Eastman Chemical Company (Eastman).
Cleo Communications, a global provider of ecosystem integration software solutions, has secured a significant investment from an affiliate of HIG Capital (HIG). Terms of the deal have not been disclosed.
Headquartered in Rockford, Illinois, Cleo is an ecosystem integration SaaS platform company that modernises the movement and integration of B2B enterprise data. The Cleo Integration Cloud platform provides more than 4,000 customers worldwide with strategic supply chain visibility into revenue-critical end-to-end business processes across the ecosystems of partners and customers, marketplaces, and customers’ internal applications. Cleo’s solutions drive business agility, accelerate partner onboarding, automate key business processes, and capture new
HCAP Partners, a California-based private equity firm and impact investor, has made a follow-on investment in TCS Healthcare Technologies, a provider of managed care software solutions.
The funding will support the acquisition of DataSmart Solutions, LLC, a predictive risk analytics software company. Terms of the investment have not been disclosed.
TCS software solutions are designed to support the needs of health plans, TPAs, ACOs, and other risk-bearing organisations by optimising clinical outcomes, maintaining compliance, and improving financial and operational excellence. The acquisition of DataSmart accelerates the company’s product development roadmap for the ACUITYnxt SaaS platform, a comprehensive suite of utilisation
Goldacre Ventures (Goldacre), a VC firm based in London focusing on the Smart Built Environment, has opened applications for its annual scale-up programme, RElab.
RElab 2021 will mark the firm’s third consecutive annual scale-up programme and will build on the success achieved over the two previous cohorts.
The 2021 programme is supported by RElab’s growing ecosystem of industry partners, including Capreon; JCA Engineering; Kier; Knight Frank; Landsec; Lockton; LogiFruit; Mace; and RSBG.
This year, RElab’s focus will be on the two themes of sustainability and of construction technology. For this, they will look to partner with exceptional scale-ups
Digital business insurance platform Embrokern has secured USD100 million in a Series C funding round was led by FTV Capital with additional investment from HSCM Bermuda and Gaingels and follow on from Tola Capital, Canaan Partners, Bee Partners, and MassMutual Ventures.
Embroker plans to utilise the new funding to expand the company into a full-stack insurtech by building its own insurance carrier.
“For Embroker to truly forge a new approach to business insurance, we need to reimagine and rebuild every part of the process,” says Matt Miller, Embroker CEO. “Even as some of the surface-level elements of insurance have
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